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The PIVOT — Newsletter
Biweekly writing from inside the work.
One idea at a time. Written from the terrain, not about it.
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Not a summary. Not a digest. Not advice from a distance. Each issue begins somewhere real — a coaching session, a moment in the field, something the world handed over — and follows it somewhere worth going.
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For anyone sitting with the disorientation of genuinely new terrain.
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Imaginal Intelligence
The intelligence that takes you far beyond the edges of logic
Here's what I've learned after decades in intelligence work, Fortune 500 consulting, and deep consciousness exploration: There's an intelligence beyond logic that most accomplished leaders never access. You've mastered analytical thinking. You've developed emotional intelligence. But there's a third intelligence—what I call imaginal intelligence—that could fundamentally change how you navigate the complexity we're all facing.
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Field Notes
March 29, 2026 - 7 min
Get Lost
On finding your way by staying lost a little longer
Herding sheep in Iceland on horseback when the radio died. What the panic actually cost — and what came online when it settled. Two questions for moments of sudden lostness.
COMMUNITY · ON GOING
August 1, 2026 - 7 min
The Disquiet
The unease beneath a successful life.
A low hum of restlessness underneath a life that's working. Not burnout, not midlife, and it doesn't lift on vacation. What the feeling is, why the usual fixes miss it, and where it's quietly pointing.
The Pivot Podcast
July 23 2026 - 7 min
What Took Me to the PIVOT
The story I'd never actually told
A morning I couldn't take my hands off the steering wheel. The restlessness I started seeing in nearly every leader I work with. And a lunch in Bangkok where the word finally surfaced — the story of how I arrived at The Pivot.